Steve Dalachinsky

de chirico landscapes #2


escaping hours
shattered against infinite waiting
of dumb sentiment.

i am stuffed doll
staring thru your archway
at the shadow of your hairline
against grey-brown ivy platform

                flat form
                        dying against the street
                  hugging the ground
                                                       a steam cloud in
space
                            heaving with a gourmand's glance
                     .......................... waiting to depart.





when i published it a good poet friend who disappeared  said  changho
knowse this to gourmand
originally i said gourmet's glance
he said you're not a gourmet you're a gourmand
so it got personal over my 1st thai meal

any way great talking with you the other day  l sd

don't know where # one is  hoops etc  trains  etc







cecil taylor in absentia  < elvin jones tribute @ the blue note




until recently
cecil would play only on a
bo send or fer                                         sob    for
tonite one awaited him                           sub    for             
                                       re     fer
but he was a no/show                             send  for
                                    dense
money                                                         /fend er  
                           bend/er
was whispered                                      bender
into
an ear
                            we see that it did not mean a thing
                                  into the air it whispered
                         but for the drummer we must keep playing

                                               the blues
end  for
option
umlaut <> on slaught  ex    act    i    tude    re  act   off
ad
re
con         verse                     serve            multiples
lost                       swing
      wings
                                                     boast
         here the      or   lost  not surely just freedom speaks
theory                                                       terror
                  bus     end     or        refer                      to
file
                away                                 boost
dogyouham
            good only
                         while supply lasts.



                                steve dalachinsky   6/04